The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1899, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1899 v g SAMOAN CHIEFS " ARE QUIESCENT Provisional Government at Apia Being Carried on Without Trouble. BRGHT TUTLOOK SPONOGLE 1§ 0 STERNR - FGATING BACK Sl SR T Every Inch of Space in Files Suit Against Asy- Pavilion Taken. lum Directors. fr e W forth Chafte g the board was Jjudicial capacity, and e exhib- charge: d aga n his nor was tt ting called r is expending $700, and ng charge 0INE to an expense vari- stendent nts. plays this rd making the 1 these ut any and granting hin ved him as medical 1- ot the position vacant and elected one J. H. Crane in his stead. Dr. Sponog! ates that dam- : BLACK FLAG HOISTED. over 100, have signified 1ition to be on hand. Th ment promises the public that xhibit be tn place at this nd the intention is practicall turn the pavilion over to the women. In the upper part of the north wing, where the art gallery is situated, room will be set apart for the use of com- mittees of W 4 here light re- freshments will be served to visitors | DPIRt the without cost. On each succeeding night | from' conge there will be a musical and vaudeville | cation with programme, which wili change daily, Sntries all departments show that there will be an immense number and variety of the very highest ciass of |/ pon Aue Californfa products exhibited in the | paily News from Pavilion. The variety of fowls which | Government of F will ited in the poultry depart- | lieve the Count: r as r been surpassed owner of the house Among nost interesting features | Which M. Guerin of Guerin’s House Is Dead. PARIS, Aug. 2 v of Rue but at 4 ag appeared in the attic w 2g0 M. Guerin gtated of his death the e serious! Communi ctly s is abrol that supervision of Professor Douglas T. g 'and patience on Fowler of the State University. This | Government. 3 model and, to California, modern meth- e T od of preparing and erving green | Bertillon Continues His Talk. food for a winter ration for stock will be explained in every detail. A com- |sixth session of the plete modern dairy sion of Major Al nited | Aifred Dreyfu; tes Department of , will | with treason, rly_ hour shown in full operation. this morning. M X '“.”y‘- )ng the stock that will be shown | ing expert, Wl ad_of the at the park there will representa- | anthropometric of the Pre- ecture of Police tives of the finest herds of cattle in | jectimany, reparding tha merica and Europe. and the parade of | Dreyfus and casong for bel road horses promises to outclass any- | artillery officer ilty. thing ever seen.her While the man- — - gement has attempted to make the | Anti-Dreyfusite Riots. gricultural features of the coming big | NEW YORK, Aug. 25 State exposition paramount to all eise, | paris to the Evening J at the same time it has succeeded in | there w procuring a list of entries to track |ihe an Dreyfusites and “rien hibition of racing the equal of which has seldom been witnessed in this State. Over 150 runners have aiready been stalled, and new quarters have hpfin[ made necessary to accommodate 1he$ | | he police charged upon the rio made many arrests. e Shamrock Not Twisted. NEW YORK, Aug. demand. Special features have been added to of the Sh: | has sprung a ieak,” S Tl and = will be plenty to interest, in- struct or amuse all visitors to the fair. e t Several beautiful paintings from this year's Paris Salon at the Gump Art Gallery, 113 Geary e afternoon. blemish, the board of at the aging allegations voiced In the Gov- ernor's ort m 1 T sent and would be so de: strated in a $100,000 libel suit about to be instituted Believed That One of the Inhabitants forbid- ¢ police . M. 0 the states that the n to be- ! the Pa will be a silo and ensi- | GucTin t= onls o muocl ge machinery in operation under the {al, perhaps explains suf- d week of the under the super- |second trial by court-martial of Captain -, charged resumed his arn, that serfous rioting t ¥ between 4 5 events that gives assurance of an ex- fus in the Rue Lafayette, t. Denis, which twelve persons were badly hurr, s and | 4 it 'OPENED BY FRENCH —*“There is abso- lutely no truth in the statement made in E. o oo L TR some of the morning papers that the hull | s Iready s full programme, mrock is twisted or that she aid David Bar- | Sir Thomas Lipton's representative, ‘I will say now,” continued Mr. Barrie, t the hull of the yacht is without a ’ e :Anthropometry . Applied to Prove the Guilt | . ofthelle ‘Du Diable Exile. — Bertillon, the Expert, CausesEventhe Court to Grow Hilarious. —_— to The Call —After M. Ber. , the handwriting expert, who is at the head of the an- thropometriz department of the of police at Paris, had the first installment of ed demonstration of the guilt vfus a prominent Drey- to him as the fin-d stro. . ards refuse to regard him g but the prince of quacks cover his remarks with ridicule test that the admission of his e T as evidence before -martial is a disgrace to . ‘est un nte!” was the mark heard on all sides when the ses- ed, and the audience, mainly D fusards, was being e by the gendarmes, who urtroom as soon as the urt adjourns. Neverthel t de even tne Dreyfusards eive themselves as to M. Bertilon’sl testimony ration may have upon who, fear, will be at the Dreyfusards con- the Judges have Ecole Polytech- rly evidence” as that of . with the aid of in- to them, they reasoning in- more than any audience could do to- f the Judges accept Bertillon' Dreyfus, as an expert rite in ordinary hand- close imitation, even give letters the appear- ced, in order to > the as a forgery the structure built ork may be scientific- Even Dreyfus, when llon’s demonstration: ingenuity and plausibili though he naturally de- that it was built upon a false arkable feature of Bertillon’s n was the heat and excite- put into what was expected to be a calm, dispassionate exposition of He thundered, shouted and arms as though engaged in rrible dispute. Once he literally and numbers of the usual ho had been unable to fol- v him and. were taking the air in the courtyard rushed back into the hall, breath v inquiring what had hap- pened and imagining that he was ful- mirating some dreadful enunciation of the accused. Th when th impres cance of the exact space, me; ce bordere: of whom found he was momentarily in a bunch, leaving Colonel Picquart and M. Bertullus severely iso- | lated, followed M. Bertillon’s statement | with a grave and wise expression of countenance, upon which never a sus- | ion of a smile understood every word. Evidently serve this attitude, for without seeing the diagrams they could n derstood any better than ‘d eral public. The Echo de Paris announced to-day the gen- that the cousel of Dreyfus had obtained | possession of certain documents men- | tioned in the bordereau, in Esterhazy's | writing, which they would produce in | court next week as a coup de theatre. | The correspondent inquired as to this in competent Dreyfusard quarters this afternoon. He was assured that the statement was erroneous, but was also told that the defense intended, in the event of Captain Dreyfus being re- | condemned, to ask the German Govern- | ment to communicate these documents, | proving his innocence, and that they had reason to believe such a request | would be granted. — - BERTILLON CREATES LEVITY IN COURT% A Amuses the Spectators and Mystifies | the part of the | the Judges and Counsel With | His Jargon. RE! ! VES. Aug. %.—The opening of to- | day’s session of Dreyfus’ second trial by | court-martial occurred at 6:30 this morn- g hout any extraordinary incidents, The clerk of the court read a medical cer- tific it was impossible for Du Paty de Clam to ve his bed and come to Rennes and tes. M. Labori, leading counsel for the defense, asked the president of the court, Colonel Jouaust, to instruct two well- known medical men to examine Du Paty de Clam, but Colonel Jouaust refused. Rowland Strong, an English newspaper D dhdhdhdh gh b O O e R R R R e S I S A S e 'S + : DIPLOMATIC LETTERS | + e SILLY"SEASON OPENS IN THE DREYFUS CAS POAAPUNIUDNIDUP ISP SR S S SRS S B4 SR aaas | S T S S S S O R S SR . bordereau, and after a few hours’ M. Bertilion positively attributed bordereau to Dreyfus, heard no more of the Dreyfus case. H Was not asked to submit a report, but described to the then Minister of Ju tice, M. Guerin, the circumstances in thé | ca timated that Yhese were | the civil judiciary a more and the witness replied that He n certain similarities between the ha writing of the bordereau d that Dreyfus, but, he added, that here were i the bordereau, and his opi Esterhazy. gested that the judges compare the bord reau with a lettér admitted to be in Esterhazy’s hapdwriting, and dated from Rouen, August ments ‘written by nize,” said M. Gober reau is in Esterh: nr()l in the handwriting of Dreyfu: (Great s EXPERT BERTILLON, WHO AMUSED THE COURT. of the anthropometric system of identification, and ertillon is the autk Bert i o against Dreyfus before the first court- S A A e G B S S TR T S Y U DA DA DD DA DD SIS S N S MO B e R R R R ahe ¢ GUERINITES ATTACK [AN POLICE . 25.—M. Guerin and anthropometer (or sp urements of the human b M. Bertillon pi ing h L only by a very limited number, and there- fore he asked t refer to documents which he in order to make his ev ligible. (Laughter.) The specialist then e headquarters of the » League, created some citement this afternoon by dis- i the windows of build- ouncing the Jews. the police prevented picking up the cir- of profound circulars de P monotonous tones M. Bertillon proc in the manner of a schoolboy reciting a lesson. to demonstrate technically how | he redched the conviction of Dreyfus | guilt, reciting the fa 21. He said he prop: court: people from culars the Guerinites the police with bricks. The police A murmur of approval from the audi- e greeted th 3obert then rep deluged the walls of the neighborhood of M. with disinfectants, man r supply was cut off. At a late hour this evening a re- porter from the Anti-Juif tried to ictual the fortre 2 since the w ing manner, a s, but was pre- swering questl bert declared his cont tten in a run was no tracing or incensed, fired two shots at c Neither reached the latter, but the incident will proba- precipitate matters. | cause l§" re used the tracing process | easier to learn and more likely (< f other tricker “000000044‘0‘00090009¢00¢¢0 B R R R R R S R R R RS + 4 two of which + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + tographs of . The audience watched this strange Zpectacle until Colonel Jouaust shrugged suoulders ‘and Knew that M. Bertillon had failed to sat- M. Bertillon noticed this and i more apologetically, I was too badly t = lvt{ih his finger pointed out i1l was called as the roup around the a 3 e a dark blue frock ¢ group anthropometer. sel for the defense | compara! and many of the audien Suddenly the wonderment of those re- maining in the hall was riveted by the M. Demange of cou to a look of inquiry from Dreyfus few words to the prisoner, shrug of his shoulders and a smile Dreytus appeared perfectiy ! excitement turned into hilarity %ll»rullon o ! at the head ing upon the Judges the signifi- | infantry ured In | B fer eatchels = charts, etc., u. The military witnesses, all | stage throughout were umable azed on M. | & r half the piatform. h the plans he ur privates, ght of immense zing with documents document. T the other with a diverge of 1.2 | and 2.25 millimeters. That i | enon which is unnatural. Colonel Jouaust then at 11:45 o'clock ad- journed the court, and M. Bertillon packed and the soldiers carried timeters, between two words in the | e crowded around M. Labori asked him for there was a was brought i . Bertillon only did It only proves he That is all.” he more important pro- sut that is all. at dozens could do. clever forger. Following are edings in detal M. Henri Weill, a former officer of the headquarters staff, was then called, but and his deposition was in the case were pub- Weill's statement in that Esterhazy told him | 4 that Dreyfus was innocent, but that nt his conviction, be- (Sensation.) and caused such a whirl in ti his hearers that C remarked rest.” inteliigent men began by sayin appeared, as though | could follow his explanations. i commenced the whole of this occupy a good they had received a mot d’ordre to pre-.| fon and will part of t0-mOrrow room_ presented tillon made further demon : irious scene while M. compared words of the borderom wiit whom the Dreyfusards | most indulgent moments “dangerous mani maining hours of t ing, in unin eystem” of proving Dreyfu the bordereau. ot have un- | lished April " spent the three r bstance wa! 50 Dreyfus succeeded in formula principal rule in making h! that any copyist possessing a ke rule: this would not prev cause he was a Jew. A former sergeant, who was at one time employed in the War Office, testified to having seen Dreyfus copying the list of iroad stations mentioned in the plan of to_ which Dreyfus repiled, “Tt is true, but I copled the list by order of Captain Besie.” . evidence of the handwriting experts ert, after testifying to the facts published April 22 and April 24, vehemently protested against the insinua- tion that he was 2n_interested witnes: followed M. Gobert's exhaustive story of his examination of the and his interviews with Gen- erals Mercier, De Boisdeffre and Gonse. M. Gobert_asserted that the handwriting the bordereau was natural, but that it whereas Dreyfus, even when writing rapidly, always wrote most legibly. The witness asked General Gonse if an envelope accompanied the bordereau, as Gobert., wished to see what the careful caligraphy was like, ex- ing that the address of a letter was ays in a firmer hand than its contents. General Gonse refused the request on the ground that the witness must not know the names of the addresses. | also refused to allow the bordereau to be photographed, alleging that if the War photographers photograph it quainted with the bordereau the next day. Thereupon the witness re- the author of ; of the pub- s, had left the Blanche aban- meantime M. Ber- hend M. Bertilion’s theori courtroom. Even La Dame doned her po mobilization, demonstrate the pre at a country (Sensation.) slogue, producing ome fresh paper covered hieroglyphics, es rted to the judges of owl-like 8 bitched voice of a quack air, continued his m every minute with wonderful “it is not with denial that they have not done w! { with an expression court closely arged with. In this case the han ing_was disguised. There Is. hos presumptive proof that the prisoner gu clustered together, their the long, wide rips of paper, while M. Bertillon leaned over their table trying to explain_his mystif; were afterward pass five question in the borders e bordereau traced in the same manner, and g diag ed to MM. Labori and Demange, who, however, apparently did | hot Gerive much profit from their perusal. | "Dreyfus gazed at the scen: of stupefaction. ot 3. TBertilion during the course of his Gemonstration was that the handwriting a geometrical A the equation ments when I was summoned Cherche Midi prison’ by Major a'Ormes SCI wished my personal opinion graphic methods, sympathetic (hke which might help' the family of Lo corresponding with him. The requs family had been received by the 'prisoner’s blotti thlk?: gvhnesa finally announced that he a practical demonstration of the bordereau according to Then he theatricall the witness bar, drew his chair nearer, deposited his high hat on the floor, and copying the | SAvehea him, bent over the desk drawing letters, the : 1 at the end of ten minute and the judges became restl tient, and Colonel Jouaust remarked that it was not necessary bordereau and that a few lines would suf- A few minutes later M. rose, strode to the judges’ table an before them hig copy. sel, Government commissary, Major Car- riere and the clerk of the court clustered | | around in one group, eager to see the re- jor d’Ormescheville produced one of the letters. I had hardly cast my ey when I was astounded to notice same kind of 2 negative O with which 1 en so strucl t was a le from Mme. Dreyfu S A | would_give The general the writing of is system. the “desk attached to would be ac- itting down began | (Laughter.) idges gazing at him, | had found the same peculiarities of Drey. in the letters of other | nd proceeded to | of fus’ hardwriti members of his give a long and perfectl exroxnlnn designe: thi “General Gonse, this is a very Interest- | ing confession.”” M. Gobert then sugi | be intrusted to the where M. Bertillon is the photographer. | Until_then, the witness said, he had never | heard of M. Bertillon as a handwriting expert, saying he became an expert for sion, when he was called te signed by two doctors declaring ested that the work refecture of Police, ing the meaning of the technic punctuated the queer expressions of anthropometer with peals of laue The members of the Court-martis] dently tried hard to understand Dreyfus appeared fatigued but ende to follow the arguments. The judges, coun- | this special ocea % | into the War Office. (Laughter.) General Gonse, it was greatly | learned of the resuit of M. Gobert amination of the the expert repeatedly. insisted on learning the name of the sus- said M. Gobert, phears from the tes- “was in 1864 considered by the War to be favorable to_the p the defense accepted it the lo; ial examination menced, and so—"" The latter always It was not proper “for me to accuse any one without being perfectly cognizant of the facts, especially rcumstances of so grave a nature. T would not accuse any one anonymously. for to do so would be con- trary to the law.” ‘Amidst laughter In court the witness from an examination of an official report on Dreyfus, from which name had been Gobert had the malicious satisfaction of telling General Gonse the name of the officer_ they wanted to arrest. after M. Gobert had refused to incrimi. nate Dreyfus that M. Bertillon was en. the examination of the struck the table with his fist. P LONDON, Aug. 2.—The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail says: Ttaly and Germany have obtained proofs that diplomatic correspondence passing + between Paris and other places is systematically opened. This has been the + case particularly since the campalgn against Dreyfus began, the French pa War Office having sought proofs to strengthen the accusations against him. " Questions on this subject will be asked in the Italian Parliament. described how, removed, M. the word ‘fabrication’ ed instead of frightened him, R R R R R (4444444444444 4444444404044 44444444000 ——— Friends of the Accused Declare the Witness Is but a Quack. e Yet the Judges May Take His Evidence in Full as Proof Positive. — Special Dispatch to The Call. From that time forward M. Gobert - Guerin,” continued the witness, "in- oldi affalr which did not c Colonel” Jouaus M. definite criticism of t sert for bord: portant differen which proved to m that Dreyfus was not the ;;u(hur of been confirmed ‘‘becaus proved the bordereau was (Sensation.) Replying to the court, M. “You will then, ., Tecog- that the borde- $ handwriting_an sation.) The witness at this purcture identified the bordereau” as the same which was submitted to him, and he proceeded to it out the identity therein with ters admittedly written by Est saying that, while the resemblanc not apparent in Dreyfus’ handwriting, in Es s there were marked peculiari- r's caligraphy. There was a general movement of curi- when M. Bertillon well-known cialist in the mea d his evidence s would be unde <pl court to permit him to had brought ence more intel- | unpacked packages of ph lans | ete., and another table was brought in to hold the mass of papers produced. In ded, cts published on April ed to prove to the First—That the bordereau was a doc- tored document. Second—T at it could factured by the pri That it had been written in a have been Thi | free hand by means of a key word placed beneath tracing paper in such a way as to be quite visible. continuing, declared that not have recourse to imi- 's freehand writing, be- too long to _did ful. Wi course of t advanced to the j the demon pe- ' bench and strations of theory MM. Demange and Labori. judges and oth dge s gathered red to be incomp! Dreyfus appe upefied by the 7 ensible jargon, nce lefit ¢ court. ptographic remark enunciated by M. n in loud tone: % “We clearly have before us a fabricated e one word always rests on a phenom- M. Labori watched the specialist for a few moments and then returned to his seat, holding up both hands and exclaim- | ing,"“Tt Is most extraordinar. Bertillon continued his explanations of 1 onel Jouaust finall Ve must have a few minutes When the session was r med M. Ber- tratio; words in the documents of comparison Leaning on the judges’ bench, he piaced the entire bordereau over a gra; vas and procecded to show that which served to g jolning marks, re could léarn to replace the e s, witness, continuing, proce cticability of t ns are accused,” ent to but it is ne ‘“When pers hat After this M. Bertillon pointed out that were 1 had reached this point in my. experi- ille. The major lained that he on_crpyto- artly due to the fact that a numie etters addressed to the, prisoner by % fhicials During the course of the interview 111,, on it the ter The speci ist then pointed aut how he amily tly u | _to demonstrate guilt of the prisoner. quite in the dark resard- lities, the telligible s proved th The audience My theory,” continued the risoner. If Ng magister- uld have to be x"zecém- Heré the witness raised hi; s voice and “When the word ‘grille’ (perforatea card ased for ciphers) was uttered at the court- martial of 1894 th " et € prisoner’s face con- “When I spoke of the fabrication of the bordereau he exclaimed: ‘Oh, the wretch; He saw me write them!” I did not hear the remark, but when it was repeated to fe it wag a Tevelation: for. if innocent, | mitted the dossier of the Tavernier in- Wwould have delight” | quiry into the cenduct of Colonel Du Paty Dreyfus listened impass vely to this tirade. The audience agailn became animated + + 27 WASHINGTON, Aug 25. — 4 4+ Communication with San Do- + { ¢ mingo by cable h + | 4 rupted and it is bel C 4 + surgents h cut + + discovery was + 4 ing by the Navy = + 4 when it endeavored to com 4 nicate with Captain Edwin Long- + 4 necker,commanding the N ( + 4 leans at San Domingo. The de- + 4 partment desired to detach + 4 officer from the vessel and ord + 4 him to the United States. + 4 It is possible that the 5 4 Department, if the bre; n + + immediately repaired, w + 4+ the Mach to return to + 4 Domingo instead of proceeding + 4 to Santiago de Cuba and thence + 4+ to Bosto No fears are enter- + 4 tained for American interests, as + 4 the authorities said that Captain + 4 Longnecker's instructions were 4 | 4+ sufficiently broad to guide him in 4 + practical any + 4 that may arise. + + + B B O R s R R e | Wednesday in tio T | heavily, whi atter, owing to advantagec h they s of punctuation and the manner of be- | revolutio ginning lines which were also noticeable in the bordereau, but which were nor | found in the pri: miilimeters | the | Mercier, T | lon’s w { day at the cou that [statement mad | Rennes y: laughter. | avored | 0 : Minister of | possibly be true. 1t w Jlx\ order before leaving his room a 11f he should f: NSURCEVTS ~TICTORIOUS [N BANE {San Domingo Troops Lose | Heavily in a Fight Near ' Monte Christi. REVOLT IS SPREADING | Forces of the Supporters of Jimi- | S | nez Constantly Receiving ' Reinforcements. a the \ I | (4444444444444 +4+44++ fighting took Monte Christi, the Gover the fo cupied, suffered only slight loss. The are ted to be con- tinually ving reinforcements. KINGSTON, Aug. 25.—Dominican mail dispatches just r ved here de- clare that instead of the tion be- ing invertebrate through lack of organ- ization and activity, the Government of San Domingo is really paralyzed, the lutionary movement g de- veloped high organization, commanding | popularity and exciting enthusiasm ughout the republic, even in the in- and capital. Santiago, it is al- leged, is preparing to declare in favor of Jiminez. San Domingo alone is loyal, but even there revolutionary demon- strations have been forcibly repressed, manifestos of travelers confiscated and several arrests h: been made. The Government retains no real standing ground el. here. The movement being national and not mer political, people are only awaiting the arrival of Jiminez to as- sume the leadership, when it is believed that many of the remaining generals, with a large proportion of the army, will join h The Government’ only reliance is the navy, which is en- deavoring to capture Jiminez and thus break up the revolution. M. Bertill would give a practical dem how the bordereau was f means of a keyb: he witne: ¢ the bordereau or similar ment. A Jouau: sary Bertillon aros resuit of h “1 was The aud mark that ceeded —_— PHOTOGRAPHS ALTERED TO SUIT BERTILLON Discovery That the Negatives Were Retouched tc Conform to His Testimony. NEW YORK, Aug. from Rennes says —A World cable e World corres- this most im- fug the phc evidence ytographer. D Bertillon’ ered As soon s timony 1 witness origin: d that Berti r aced. Gene t and Gonse have all pledged 1t they have studied Bertil- 1 found his deductions a ds rk solutely car their wc es will not ny but in whi als retouc! said to be so cleverly done t photographs is t it is al- impossible to detect it. — WITNESS MISTAKEN. Facts Showing That Testimony Gives in Dreyfus Case Was Inaccurate. BERLIN, Aug. 2.—The correspondent Re d Press was inf -martial office on the witn sterday by M. Mortian d ler, a_friend of M. Beaurepaire, the for- mer Judge of the civil section of the Court of Cassation, that he had seen a newspaper, the Libre Parole, bearing a while | POStage stamp. in Emperor Wi b room at Potsdam and that on the p erman mear ted,” could pointed o is° Majesty invariably puts b were certain words in “Dreyfus has been arre: ‘er 1 | nd that nothing is left lying around or ope to do so it is the of his valet to put things away. I it was also said, the Emperor do not read whole newspapers, byt only marked clippings which later are incorporated in scrapbooks. e | Dossier Is Presented. | PARIS, Aug. The Minister of War, | General Marquis de Gallifet, has trans- de Clam to the court-martial at Rennes as requested by Maitre Labori, leading | counsel for the defense, on Wednesday | last.